Fiscal Management
Pioneer seeks to encourage goal setting, performance measurement, and the adoption of best practices in state and local government, to help ensure public accountability. Pioneer advances competitive contracting of public services, when the quality of the service can be improved and the cost lowered.
Research
Municipal Management
- Testimony before the Joint Committee on Public Service of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Regarding the Fiscal Condition of Local Retirement Systems
- Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts Middle Cities: A Look at Economic Growth
- Competition & Government Services: Can Massachusetts Still Afford the Pacheco Law
- The Power to Take: The Use of Eminent Domain in Massachusetts
- Toward a High-Performance Workplace: Fixing Civil Service in Massachusetts
- Leaving Money on the Table: The 106 Pension Systems of Massachusetts Public Employee Benefits Series: Part 2
- Long-Term Leasing of State Skating Rinks: A Competitive Contracting Success Story
- Managing Water Demand: Price vs. Non-Price Conservation Programs
- Housing Programs in Weak Market Neighborhoods
- Our Legacy of Neglect: The Longfellow Bridge and the Cost of Deferred Maintenance
- Flawed Forecasts: A Critical Look at Convention Center Feasibility Studies
- The Cost of Inaction: Does Massachusetts Need Public Construction Reform?
- Rehabbing Urban Redevelopment
- Municipal Guide Utility
- Guide to Sound Fiscal Management for Municipalities
- Housing and Land Use Policy in Massachusetts
- Worcester
- Taunton
- Springfield
- Quincy
- New Bedford
- Lowell
- Lawrence
- Fitchburg
- Brockton
- Boston (Spanish)
- Boston (English)
- New Business Creation and The Urban Economy
- Learning from Springfield
- GIC Consolidation
- Driving the New Urban Agenda
- Regionalization: Case Studies of Success and Failure in Massachusetts
- Municipal Benchmarks for Massachusetts Middle Cities: Educational Achievement
- Facing the Economic Crisis: Challenges for Massachusetts Police Chiefs
- Where Are the Public Safety Funds Going?
- A Practitioner’s Guide to Outsourcing
Regionalization Clearinghouse
- Attleboro – North Attleborough Water Agreement
- Attleboro – North Attleborough Sewer Agreement
- Sudbury-Wayland Septage Disposal Agreement
- Amesbury, Salisbury, and Newburyport Public Health Agreement
- Saugus GIC Consolidation Agreement
- Mohawk Trail GIC Consolidation Agreement
- Holbrook GIC Consolidation Agreement
- Hawlemont Regional School District GIC Consolidation Agreement
- Sterling-West Boylston Shared Building Inspection Contract and Agreement
- Somerset – Swansea Animal Control Agreement
- Amesbury, Salisbury, and Newburyport Animal Control Agreement
- Hubbardston – Templeton Animal Control Agreement
- Ashburnham – Westminster Animal Control Agreement
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